Posted on 02/05/2023 8:51:48 AM PST by John Semmens
The San Diego City Council unanimously voted to declare housing a human right. Council President Monica Montgomery Steppe argued that “the homelessness crisis has become intolerable. The large incidence of mental illness and drug-abuse among these unfortunates breeds crime. Something had to be done. Our action did not include any appropriations or specific solutions for addressing the problem because there is no money available.”
City attorney Dan Eaton pointed out that “fear of voter opposition to the tax increases that would be needed to fund better housing led the Council to take another route. The hope is that by declaring decent housing a human right those without it will now have grounds to sue the City for not providing it. If the courts agree that housing is a right they will order the City to provide it. Then voters won’t be able to blame Council members for raising the taxes needed to house these people in vacant hotel rooms like they do in New York City.”
It’s not as if the New York approach has been a roaring success. The people put up in the $400 per night hotel rooms have trashed the premises with wild sex, drugs, and violence. City efforts to relocate the unruly guests to less expensive accommodations have been rejected. Instead, the guests are demanding access to vacant luxury apartments in the City’s “billionaire row.”
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The San Diego City Council unanimously voted to declare housing a human right. Council President Monica Montgomery Steppe argued that “the homelessness crisis has become intolerable.
Next up by the left “Being a billionaire is a human right” but of course they will mean it only for illegals and muslims and blm and antifa and ilk
That’s why G-d made so many caves. People need to get their asses out there and claim one. It’s their “right”, RIGHT?
Probably the only viable solution here is to build Tent cities to house these people until they get on their feet, recover or die. Many of them are addicts and/or mentally ill.
Up until the 1970s, these people were kept in Institutions (before the Do-Gooders shut them down). Government could certainly try that approach again, but I suspect it would be cost prohibitive. At least in Tent cities, you can control them and provide them some type of basic care.
Putting them up in 3-4 star hotels is just ridiculous.
The City of San Diego is currently spending tens of thousands of dollars per homeless person and the problem keeps getting worse. It is time to raise taxes and spend more. /s
these persons existing on the street’s of our Republic are the reasons WHY we had institutions that housed them until they were at some point determined to be able to stand on their own two feet. The systematic closing of these facilities has led to this outcome and the costs to society is far beyond the system we had in place prior to all of the liberal bleeding hearts screaming how inhumane the heat/food/plumbing provided at said facilities were. Now reduced to animal status and drug / alcohol self medicating all the while making downtown’s a hazard to do business...Lock them up and sift through them slowly so those who PAY for all of these miscreants can at least go downtown and buy a coffee without being accosted.
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